[quote] ISLAMABAD – ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani men took turns savagely beating the two teenage brothers with sticks, drawing blood before dragging and hanging their dead bodies from a nearby pole. None of the dozens of people watching tried to stop the attack, not even several police. The boys may have been mistaken for robbers.
The scene, caught on video and broadcast on news channels, has outraged and anguished Pakistanis, some of whom are asking if years of state neglect have brutalized society. It also is a blow to the already-shoddy image of the government as it appeals for international aid to cope with disastrous floods.
"Is this what we are? Savages?" asked an editorial in The News, an English-language daily. "So utterly bereft of a speck of humanity that a crowd of ordinary men are passive spectators to public murder?"
The killings occurred Aug. 15 in Sialkot, a town in eastern Punjab province. As details have emerged, authorities appear increasingly confident the two boys — Moiz Butt, 17, and his brother Muneeb, 15 — were innocent.
The two went to play cricket after praying and eating breakfast, carrying a bag with them containing game equipment, said Mujahid Sherdil, a top government official in the district. They were sons of a middle-class man who deals in fabric for soccer balls. Moiz was honored with the title "hafiz" for having memorized the Muslim holy book, the Quran.
He added, however, that more information was still being sought. The boys were believed to have been in fights over the past few days for the right to play on the cricket ground, which was about a mile (two kilometers) from their house.
The origins of the video are unknown and there are reports that multiple men in the crowd recorded the attack using cell phones. Stations blurred out some of the more graphic images of the boys' bloodied bodies, but several faces in the crowd are clearly identifiable, including several police officers in uniform who watched.
Punjab province Police Chief Tariq Saleem said the government has ordered two separate inquiries into the killings.
"This incident is highly condemnable, especially in the police presence," Saleem said after visiting the boys' family. "All accused, including police, will be arrested soon."
It's unclear whether such mob killings are more common now than in years past in Pakistan, but they are more likely to get reported and affect the public consciousness because of the explosion of electronic media during the last decade.
Over the past two years, police and even soldiers have been caught on video beating suspects. In 2008, in two separate incidents in less than a week, crowds set fire to suspected robbers in the southern city of Karachi. In the first incident, a picture of men lying like logs in a fire made front pages.
Civic groups condemned the attack in Sialkot, and the media attention forced the government to respond. But many suspects never get caught — one reason mobs feel free to go after victims on their own.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited the family of the two boys Sunday in Sialkot and issued an appeal for citizens to come forward with evidence to help the investigation. He said at least 10 suspects have been arrested, including four police officers.
Malik said the police should have at least fired their guns in the air to disperse the crowd, and added people should not take the law into their own hands.
"It is not the kind of incident any civilized society can afford," he said. "The whole of Pakistan wants the people involved to be punished. And we are getting demands from the nation that they should be hanged at the very place where they murdered the two brothers."
The brothers' killings came as Pakistan's government is reeling from other crises, including the worst flooding in decades. The calamity appears to have further eroded confidence in the government, a key U.S. ally in the fight against Islamist extremism.
In a column Sunday, commentator Ghazi Salahuddin wrote that the Sialkot attack and the desperation of the poor caught in the floods are "rooted in the potential inability of the state to protect and look after the citizens."
"These things are possible because the successive ruling elites do not really love Pakistan," Salahuddin wrote. "They have never loved this country and the present government does not deserve to be blamed more for its lapses than the previous ones."
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Associated Press writers Zarar Khan in Islamabad and Babar Dogar in Lahore contributed to this report. [/quote]
Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/22/video-mob-beating-brothers-death-police-watch-sparks-anger-anguish-pakistan/[/url]
The videos in question:
[url]http://www.realitatea.net/frati-ucisi-pakistan_733661.html[/url]
[url]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01d_1282455999[/url]
Ehh, they were probably homosexual furries.
[QUOTE=Ali Legend;24278558]Ehh, they were probably homosexual furries.[/QUOTE]
Implying that makes it okay.
Shall we perform the same kind acts to you sir?
[QUOTE=bravehat;24278618]Implying that makes it okay.
Shall we perform the same kind acts to you sir?[/QUOTE]
If he's mentally brain damaged like a homosexual furry, yes.
That's east for you
Fucking savages.
[quote]"Is this what we are? Savages?"[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYv3LLkd1to&feature=related[/media]
[QUOTE=Magistrate;24278639]If he's mentally brain damaged like a homosexual furry, yes.[/QUOTE]
I can't tell if you're trolling or not, so I'll assume you are, since you're being retarded, tonight I have this naive view that people aren't ass backwards.
Hooray for Islamic law. Dumbasses.
If they were caught murdering or something, it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But the cops didn't even know for sure what was going on, but they still stood by.
Pathetic.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;24278740]If they were caught murdering or something, it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But the cops didn't even know for sure what was going on, but they still stood by.
Pathetic.[/QUOTE]
No one has any right to kill anyone.
No one.
That country is so messed up.
Really fucking savages. The only difference between medieval dark ages and this is that now they have phones to record this.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24278771]No one has any right to kill anyone.
No one.[/QUOTE]
So if a guy attacks me, I have no right to fight back?
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;24278814]So if a guy attacks me, I have no right to fight back?[/QUOTE]
Fight back? Sure. Beating him dead while he lays on the floor helpless? NO
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;24278740]If they were caught murdering or something, it probably wouldn't have been so bad.[/QUOTE]
First, an eye for an eye is a terrible system. Second, vigilantism and retaliating against someone on the spot for like that without due process is also terrible.
that's why we don't give retards weapons
[QUOTE=johan_sm;24278842]Fight back? Sure. Beating him dead while he lays on the floor helpless? NO[/QUOTE]
What if he tries to kill you?
[QUOTE=badMedia;24278891]that's why we don't give retards weapons[/QUOTE]
That's why they use sticks and bricks.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;24278814]So if a guy attacks me, I have no right to fight back?[/QUOTE]
If the threat is imminent then yes, but if you're talking about as a criminal sentence then no you shouldn't have the right to have him executed.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;24278901]What if he tries to kill you?[/QUOTE]
So you will kill him instead?
Sure if you accidentally killed him in the process of defending, I think that's fine, but if he is defenseless, then you're a savage for killing him, even if he tried to kill you.
Fucking barbarians.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;24278814]So if a guy attacks me, I have no right to fight back?[/QUOTE]
Feel free to break his legs and crush his wind pipe if you fancy and extract some teeth with needle nose pliers if the feeling takes you and he put you in danger.
But you kill him and worse should be done to you.
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[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;24278901]What if he tries to kill you?[/QUOTE]
Break his bones dislocate shit beat him within an inch of his life, try and keep him alive but if he has to be killed to defend yourself then go ahead.
But you better be able to prove that you killed him in self defence.
that is barbaric
i can honestly say i hope all involved are thrown into the worst prison imaginable
[QUOTE=IAmIchigo;24279561]that is barbaric
i can honestly say i hope all involved are thrown into the worst prison imaginable[/QUOTE]
Apparently prisons aren't much of a difference from their streets
At least there will be a severe decrease in robberies?
Fucking low brow, knuckle dragging savages.
This is so fucking backwards.
Such acts performed in their society, should rectify you being a 3rd world country with no desire of becoming modernized.
[QUOTE=JDK721;24278887]First, an eye for an eye is a terrible system.[/QUOTE]
Why is it a terrible system?
"Because Ghandi says so."
Looks like the Lynched are Dead men facing Dog Days
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